In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and its Ironies

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2016
Author
Author: David Rieff
Language
English
Number of Pages
145 pp.
Publisher
Yale University Press
City
New Haven, CT
ISBN
9780300182798
Annotation

Contents: 

  • Footprints in the sands of time, and all that
  • Must we deform the past in order to preserve it?
  • What is collective memory actually good for?
  • The victory of memory over history
  • Forgiveness and forgetting
  • The memory of wounds and other safe harbors
  • Amor fati
  • Against remembrance
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